Job 42:6

Therefore I loathe [it], || And I have sighed on dust and ashes.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

In Context

5By the hearing of the ear I heard You, || And now my eye has seen You.

7And it comes to pass after YHWH’s speaking these words to Job, that YHWH says to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger has burned against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken correctly concerning Me, like My servant Job.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:27And it comes to pass, at Ahab’s hearing these words, that he tears his garments, and puts sackcloth on his flesh, and fasts, and lies in sackcloth, and goes gently.

Esther 4:1And Mordecai has known all that has been done, and Mordecai tears his garments, and puts on sackcloth and ashes, and goes forth into the midst of the city and cries—a cry loud and bitter,

Job 9:31Then You dip me in corruption, || And my garments have detested me.

Job 40:3And Job answers YHWH and says:

Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, || A heart broken and bruised, O God, || You do not despise.

Isaiah 58:5Is this like the fast that I choose? The day of a man’s afflicting his soul? To bow his head as a reed, || And spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, || And a desirable day—to YHWH?

Matthew Henry on Job 42:2-7

Job's Humble Confession. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered the Lord , and said, 2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and… Read the whole commentary →

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